Centuries-Old Manuscript Reveals Love for Richard III

Bad Science - Language Log on problems in science.

Your Liver May Be 'Eating' Your Brain - New research shows the liver and hippocampus (the memory center in the brain) share a craving for the same protein, and the liver wins out when there's extra belly fat involved. (Via David Goldman.)

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Neil Gaiman: Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming - A lecture explaining why using our imaginations, and providing for others to use theirs, is an obligation for all citizens. (Via AH.)

A brief history of young adult literature

The Meat Is Only the Start - Hungry City: Umami Burger in Greenwich Village. Mmm mmm. (Thanks to ( Read more... )

Metatropolis: Green Space Out Today + Metatropolis Trade PB On the Way

As We May Type - New generations of outliners and writing tools.

Small scale, small contribution - The 1.26 billion people whose countries belong to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development account for 42 percent of emissions. The rich, if they reduced ( Read more... )

Gratitude and Stewardship - My friend and fellow cancer patient on living onward through the disease. I like this post.

Codex Seraphinianus - Wow. What a weird and cool piece of bibliographic art. (Via ( Read more... )

Metastasis: An Anthology to Support Cancer Research - In which I have a reprint piece.

Polemic: how readers will discover books in future - Charlie Stross is as usual smart and funny.

Mark Forsyth's top 10 lost words - From snollygoster to wamblecropt, these forgotten words just might come handy, says the author of The Horologicon. (Via AH.)

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The C-Word or “C” is for Cancer - Author Eugie Foster is in great and sudden need, something I understand all too well. I will be shifting some of the funds raised for me to Eugie. Please join me in helping her.

You can do a lot in a lifetime if you don't burn out too fast - Lisa Costello on her first year in Portland (with me).

METAtropolis: ( Read more... )

A Korean review of Kalimpura - Even with Google Translate, I can't tell if this is positive or negative.

50 People On ‘The Most Intellectual Joke I Know’ - This is hilarious. (Via David Goldman.)

Einstein's genius may be due to a 'well connected' brain - Einstein's genius may have been triggered by the left and right sides of his brain being ( Read more... )

I am pleased to announce that editor Beth Meacham of Tor Books has acquired my collection Last Plane to Heaven, via my agent Jennifer Jackson. Given the state of my health, this will almost certainly be my last trade collection of short fiction ( Read more... )

Side Effects

I continue tracking side effects. I now monitor blood pressure daily, as my friend Regorafenib drives that up. I have a nifty iPhone app that records BP, pulse and weight. I'm looking for a poop tracker as well, just haven't yet sat down and focused on this. We've got the overnight sleep issues under control with the combination of ( Read more... )

Story Bone - Steve Buchheit riffs on my new career as a psychopomp.

The Telltale Door: 1931 - Edgar Allan Poe's mother's house.

BLDG BLOG on books recently received - Interesting stuff, but if both else, click through to see the photo they lead the piece with. Amazing.

Forget Venus and Mars, we’re beginning to understand gender behavior on Earth ( Read more... )